Really big VS rant
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Microsoft, If you're going to make an installation that requires a reboot, then popping up a "Do you want to restart" dialog at the end of the install, giving that dialog focus, then giving the "OK, restart" button focus is a really dumb idea. We may be typing and not watching the screen. I thought that kind of dumb went out of fashion a while back.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
I've written long emails and lost them b/c Weven gets sick of waiting and just restarts itself.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
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Microsoft, If you're going to make an installation that requires a reboot, then popping up a "Do you want to restart" dialog at the end of the install, giving that dialog focus, then giving the "OK, restart" button focus is a really dumb idea. We may be typing and not watching the screen. I thought that kind of dumb went out of fashion a while back.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
That's a harbinger of things to come. Wait till you try to use the debugger[^] on a large solution (60+ projects). :( /ravi
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I've written long emails and lost them b/c Weven gets sick of waiting and just restarts itself.
Christian Graus Driven to the arms of OSX by Vista. Read my blog to find out how I've worked around bugs in Microsoft tools and frameworks.
i've come to realize that computers, rather than being devices for my use, are primary places where software can live, breed, grow and maintain itself. it seems like every time i turn one of my computers on, some program is trying to update itself, or wants to tell me about something, or wants to reboot because it needs to change something about its habitat. the computer belongs to the software now - i just get to harvest some of its fruits now and then.
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Microsoft, If you're going to make an installation that requires a reboot, then popping up a "Do you want to restart" dialog at the end of the install, giving that dialog focus, then giving the "OK, restart" button focus is a really dumb idea. We may be typing and not watching the screen. I thought that kind of dumb went out of fashion a while back.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
I thought that kind of dumb went out of fashion a while back.
Dumb never goes out of fashion, it merely finds a new designer. ;) Marc
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Microsoft, If you're going to make an installation that requires a reboot, then popping up a "Do you want to restart" dialog at the end of the install, giving that dialog focus, then giving the "OK, restart" button focus is a really dumb idea. We may be typing and not watching the screen. I thought that kind of dumb went out of fashion a while back.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
I thought that kind of dumb went out of fashion a while back.
It's bell bottoms, it goes in and out of fashion every so often.
Jeremy Falcon
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Chris Maunder wrote:
I thought that kind of dumb went out of fashion a while back.
Dumb never goes out of fashion, it merely finds a new designer. ;) Marc
Dumb never goes out of fashion, it merely finds requires a new designer to write the code.
Software Zen:
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Microsoft, If you're going to make an installation that requires a reboot, then popping up a "Do you want to restart" dialog at the end of the install, giving that dialog focus, then giving the "OK, restart" button focus is a really dumb idea. We may be typing and not watching the screen. I thought that kind of dumb went out of fashion a while back.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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Microsoft, If you're going to make an installation that requires a reboot, then popping up a "Do you want to restart" dialog at the end of the install, giving that dialog focus, then giving the "OK, restart" button focus is a really dumb idea. We may be typing and not watching the screen. I thought that kind of dumb went out of fashion a while back.
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project | Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Chris Maunder wrote:
I thought that kind of dumb went out of fashion a while back.
We're talking about Visual Studio here... its dumbness can only increase, just like entropy in the universe.
--Mike-- Dunder-Mifflin, this is Pam
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That's a harbinger of things to come. Wait till you try to use the debugger[^] on a large solution (60+ projects). :( /ravi
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Oh yes, I've had these, I have at work a solution with 40 projects and every day I need to close VS at least once because of System.OutOfMemoryException thrown out when building The other day I was debugging something with ten threads, and I pressed F10 and the darn thing acted like I pressed F11 and stepped into a method call from a different thread that I wasn't debugging Besides it wasn't even half responsive while debugging
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Oh yes, I've had these, I have at work a solution with 40 projects and every day I need to close VS at least once because of System.OutOfMemoryException thrown out when building The other day I was debugging something with ten threads, and I pressed F10 and the darn thing acted like I pressed F11 and stepped into a method call from a different thread that I wasn't debugging Besides it wasn't even half responsive while debugging
Camilo Sánchez Herrera wrote:
need to close VS at least once because of System.OutOfMemoryException thrown out when building
Yes, this happens to me regularly.
Camilo Sánchez Herrera wrote:
The other day I was debugging something with ten threads,
I think that's my problem (or rather VS' problem). The random stepping problem seems to occur when I'm running a VS test project. Further, the debugger seems to disconnect from the thread if I'm paused at a breakpoint for more than a certain amount of time. Please vote for this[^] bug report in the hope that MS will look into it. Thanks! /ravi
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